Caroline Blackwood

Caroline Blackwood (1931-1996) was born into a rich Anglo-Irish aristocratic family. She rebelled against her background at an early age and led a hectic and bohemian life, which included marriages to the painter Lucian Freud, the pianist and composer Israel Citkowitz, and the poet Robert Lowell. In the 1970s Blackwood began to write. Among her books are several novels, including Great Granny Webster and Corrigan (both available as NYRB Classics); On the Perimeter, an account of the women's anti-nuclear protest at Greenham Common; and The Last of the Duchess, about the old age of the Duchess of Windsor.

From the Review

December 16, 1993: Portraits by Freud

Lucian Freud: Recent Work Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 16, 1993–March 13, 1994; the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, April 6–June 13, 1994 at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, September–November 1993; the

Lucian Freud: Recent Work catalog by Catherine Lampert

Lucian Freud: Early Works Robert Miller Gallery, New York, November 23, 1993–January 8, 1994

September 24, 1992: Francis Bacon (1909–1992)

May 3, 1979: Liverpool: Notes from Underground

From New York Review Books

Corrigan With Corrigan Caroline Blackwood takes a long, hard look at our dearly beloved notions of saints and sinners, victims and villains, patrimony and present pleasure—and winks.

Great Granny Webster This macabre, mordantly funny, partly auto-biographical novel reveals the gothic craziness behind the scenes in the great houses of the aristocracy, as witnessed through the unsparing eyes of an orphaned teenage girl.